 ... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion.  Annual Register - Σελίδα 24επεξεργασία από - 1780Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 σελίδες
...pains and the pleasure of other minds: they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1898 - 258 σελίδες
...Dcfnne. John Donne was the greatest of the group of poets called by Dr. Johnson metaphysical poets, who " wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; . . . making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life,... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 σελίδες
...pains and the pleasure of other minds: they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 σελίδες
...and the pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 σελίδες
...pains and the pleasure of other minds: they never enquired what on any occasion they should have said or done, but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure." " Johnson dislikes what we would call their ironic detachment, their lack... | |
 | Charles Martindale - 1990 - 340 σελίδες
...objections, of a kind similar to those which Dr Johnson levelled against the 'metaphysical' poets: they... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes... | |
 | John Barrell - 1995 - 384 σελίδες
...and the pleasures of other minds; they never enquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature . . . Those writers who lay on watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 σελίδες
...nothing new."4:1 But Johnson also comments on an experiential problem he sees in the metaphysicals, who "wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes... | |
 | René Wellek - 1978 - 768 σελίδες
...pains and the pleasure of other minds: they never enquired what on any occasion they should have said or done, but wrote rather as beholders than partakers...human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure.« 82. ebenda, 2 (Congreve), 217; Raleigh, S. 9: »These apologies are always... | |
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